Vitus

How To Use Vitus In A Sentence

• Discrutior animi quia domo abeundum est mihi: Nimis hercule invitus abeo, nec quid agam scio. Anatomy of Melancholy
• Military resistance was organized by Sidonius's brother-in-law, Ecdicius, son of the emperor Avitus.
• A variation of tarantism spread throughout much of Europe between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries, where it was known as the dancing mania or St. Vitus's dance, on account of participants often ending their processions in the vicinity of chapels and shrines dedicated to this saint.
• Illane parva est servitus amatorum singulis fere horis pectine capillum, calimistroque barbam componere, faciem aquis redolentibus diluere, &c. 5424. Anatomy of Melancholy
• There were the appallingly untalented, removed from that friendly mirror in their bedroom, dancing like stick insects with St Vitus dance and impaling themselves on hideous voices.
• Avitus was later to become bishop of the same see.
• Avitus was also related, if only as godson, to bishop Mamertus, brother of the theologian Claudianus.
• I glanced at Fergus, fidgeting to and fro like a hoptoad with St. Vitus's dance, and decided that I might as well send a few messages myself. Dragonfly in Amber
• Two mottoes -- "non gregem aed ingratos," and "invitus desero" -- expressed his opinion of Dutch ingratitude and his own fidelity. History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609)
• Their parents should know that they have chorea, which is the same trouble as St. Vitus's Dance, although often existing in a degree too mild to attract attention. Civics and Health